In case folks are looking for a convenient way to containerize their claude code instances, here's a way to use Docker on your mac machine to isolate YOLO-ing claude instances.
github.com/paulgp/claud...
Restrictive immigration quotas in the 1920s reduced intergenerational mobility for US-born white men, and had imprecise but positive effects on intergenerational mobility of Black men, from @jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social, Yi-Ju Hung, Marco Tabellini, and Monia Tomasella www.nber.org/papers/w34775
🧵 New version of our paper (@bcegerod.bsky.social) is finally online: "How Many is Enough? Sample Size in Staggered Difference-in-Differences Designs"
We show that even well-identified DiD studies are often underpowered; sample sizes needed are surprisingly large
Paper: osf.io/preprints/os... 1/6
⏰ Deadline approaching! Submit your work to the RFBerlin Conference on Health and Economic Well-Being.
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Flood Risk Mapping and the Distributional Impacts of Climate Information" by Joakim A. Weill. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
IT LIVES!
First draft: 2011
This draft: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xh3sg...
In between: 12 years of being under review (of which half are on us). +1 coauthor. For me personally: a few moves, a few jobs, a few kids.
Our paper with @fcinnio.bsky.social @hornungerik.bsky.social “Flow of ideas: Economic societies and the rise of useful knowledge” is out in print
@theeconjournal.bsky.social 🚨🚨🚨
In it, we investigate the effect of knowledge sharing societies from the 18th century on long-run innovation. Read on ->
Check out this Economic History Workshop in Uppsala (co-hosted by our @erikprawitz.bsky.social) 👇
School equalization in the shadow of Jim Crow: Causes and consequences of resource disparity in Mississippi circa 1940 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"We estimate large positive marginal effects of local educational spending on Black students’ enrollment, attainment, and lifetime earnings."
"global warming induces mechanical trends in extreme temperature exposure that correlate strongly with a location’s baseline temperature. Substantial bias emerges if trends in the outcome variable also correlate with baseline temperature for any reason"
Line graph showing cumulative state adoption of chiropractic boards over time
I'm John Fallon, a labor economist on the job market. My JMP uncovers something wild: when chiropractors got licensed in the early 1900s, medical boards responded by making it HARDER to become a doctor.
Why would competition lead to stricter regulations?
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john-fallon-econ.com
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Don't spend your Black Friday chasing deals. Read job market papers (and hire my students) instead
@john-fallon-econ.com studies both occupational licensing AND the bizarre world of early 20th century healthcare, w MDs and chiropractors competing over patients to fix (or at least make less worse)
Now forthcoming at Quarterly Journal of Economics
Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis
Available at: digitalcommons.chapman.edu/esi_working_...
(See thread below for an overview)
The space race produced great feats of engineering, yet contrary to conventional narratives, it failed to boost the wider economy. We spoke with Shawn Kantor and Alex Whalley about why this technological push didn't translate into big productivity gains. www.aeaweb.org/research/pub...
Agricultural innovation increased dramatically in response to environmental damage from the American Dust Bowl, substantially mitigating its economic impacts, from Jacob Moscona www.nber.org/papers/w34438
Shari Eli, Nicholas Li & Janki Shah use new complete count data to assess what can & cannot be learned about socio-economic status from the Canadian census 1871-1901. They analyze the non-reporting of earnings despite having an occupation & the characteristics of people at different earning levels.
Some authors have contacted AEA editors about an unexpected loss of data access that affects their ability to respond to an R&R. If this affects you, please explain the circumstances in your cover letter. Or reach out to the coeditor if you need guidance before resubmitting. @aeajournals.bsky.social
Reminder! Our Economics of Longevity & Ageing webinar series kicks off next month, on 19 Nov!
With Amy Finkelstein Massachusetts Institute of Technology presenting 'Elderly Health & Longevity in the US'
Register: https://cepr.org/events/event-series/economics-longevity-ageing-webinar-series
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So excited to be working with @jrothst.bsky.social and the amazing program committee to make this year's SoLE annual meeting the best ever-don't forget to submit your paper so you can join us there!
www.sole-jole.org/2026-program...
Taking the literature as a whole, the global consequences of unmitigated climate change are likely to be substantial, unequal, harmful in aggregate, and potentially destabilizing, from Solomon Hsiang www.nber.org/papers/w34357
Join the RFBerlin Annual Public Lecture: “Why Women Won” by Nobel Laureate Claudia Goldin, Professor of Economics at Harvard University.
🆓 Free admission | 🎟️ Register now: form.typeform.com/to/j3BaW2OV
4 November 16:00 HU Spandauer Str. 1, 10178 Berlin
Nice piece from @antonhowes.bsky.social on @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Joel Mokyr who won the economics Nobel. As Anton brings out, it’s great to see the prize recognising economic history, especially that which comes out in books
www.worksinprogress.news/p/what-makes...
What a great day: legends of innovation economics Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt win the Nobel. Joel was a PhD advisor of mine, so need a full article! Included: good & bad explanations of the Indus Rev, Aghion's charisma, influence of Jon Hughes, French fashion houses: kevinbryanecon.com/mokyraghionh...
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UCalgary econ is posting for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Industrial Organization or Regulatory Economics
Join us! #econsky
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"Bob Fogel said to me once: For economics to work without economic history is like an evolutionary biologist without paleontology. You just miss 99.5% of all the species that ever walked on this earth." Joel Mokyr www.youtube.com/live/__0sGvj...
Avner Grief, Joel Mokyr, and Guido Tabellini The starkly different paths of economic and institutional development followed by China and the West is often attributed largely to the Industrial Revolution. This column argues that institutions and culture played a key role in setting Europe and China on divergent paths well before the onset of the Industrial Revolution, but the role they played was mediated by a critical difference between the two civilisations: the nature of their prevalent social organisations. A key factor behind China’s remarkable economic resurgence has been its capacity to adapt traditional institutions and cultural practices to the needs of a modern economy.
Nobel Laureate Joel Mokyr, Avner Greif, & Guido Tabellini discuss their recent book in which they argue institutions and culture played a key role in setting Europe and China on divergent paths of economic and political development.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
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"No way I am going to retire. Even if my students are retiring, not me." ❤️
Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China, 1000–2000 Avner Greif, Joel Mokyr, and Guido Tabellini How the social organization of Europe and China shaped their divergent economic and political trajectories over the past millennium Price: $39.95/£35.00 ISBN: Published (US): Nov 4, 2025 Published (UK): Dec 30, 2025 Copyright: 2025 Pages: 544 Size: 6.13 x 9.25 in. Illus: 16 b/w illus. 11 tables. 1 map.
Econ history family: incoming book alert! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
